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Welcome to My World: Personal Geographies. Core - Spring 2014. Orienteering yourself. Orienteering in geographic terms involves delivering yourself to the wilderness and crashing your way through a landscape without paths, and finding your way home, or at least where you started from.
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Welcome to My World:Personal Geographies • Core - Spring 2014
Orienteering yourself • Orienteering in geographic terms involves delivering yourself to the wilderness and crashing your way through a landscape without paths, and finding your way home, or at least where you started from. • But orienteering might also be metaphoric, symbolic - a way to crash through your own history, your own life, a sort of spiritual orienting. A way to allow you to find yourself in your life, which most likely consists of a multitude of terrains. • Your next work in core asks you to “map” yourself creatively, using all your landscapes to explore where you’ve been, where you are now, and where you will eventually go.
Michael Druks “Druksland Physical and Social “15 January 1974, 11:30 am,
“Man is called by the ancients a world in miniature and certainly the name is well applied, for just as man is composed of earth, water, air and fire, so is the body of the earth. If man has in him bones which are the support and armor of the flesh, the world has rocks which are the support of the earth; if man has in himself the sea of blood, in which the lungs rise and fall in breathing,so the body of the earth has its oceanic sea which rises and falls every six hours for the world to breathe. If from the said sea of blood spring veins which go on ramifying through-out the human body, similarly the oceanic sea fills the body of the earth with infinite veins of water.” ~Leonardo da Vinci~
Tony Fitzpatrick, Apparition of the Honored Chicago Dead, 2004
In this visual poem/map, the Scottish poet Edwin Morgan shows the geographic range of various Scottish names for a bird, Fringilla coelebs, commonly called the chaffinch. Recent studies have shown that the chaffinch’s song varies according to region, similar to human dialects. Edwin MorganChaffinch Map of Scotland, 1965
It took the author one-and-a-half years to write and design this poem about Manhattan in the form of a map as crowded as the place it represents Howard HorowitzManhattan, 1997
Personal Geography Aik Chee Page 1 • In this project, I have created 3 maps based on my trip from home to St. Edwards University. The first one is the Artifact Map. I laid out my trip and labeled the road names and venues from what I can remember. I also added the traffic light icons where I usually have to stop on my trip.
In the “Perceptual Map”, it is about what I sense during my trip, so I presented it in an abstract way. I recorded what I see, what I hear, and what I feel on my trip. The colors and the graphics used are to represent my feelings and my reactions towards the different moments in my trip Personal GeographyAik Chee Page 2
It gets totally wild and abstract in my Cognitive Map. Since I am stuck in the traffic a lot on my way to school, I would do brainstorming while the traffic was not moving. They can be entirely unrelated but it shows the complication of my mind the possibility of our imagination. Personal GeographyAik Chee Page 3
